Daomu Biji: Restart Book 4: Chapter 56: Papapapa

With all this noise, it was really difficult for to call Xiao Hua.

The radio finally fell into a brief silence after the womans last words fell, so I called Xiao Huas na again.

There was no response, but Uri's voice rang out again, "Jin Xingsan, why arent you responding? What are you doing?"

"Did you not reply at that ti?" I asked Jin Xingsan.

"I did," Jin Xingsan said. "But she couldnt hear over there. It seed as if my transmitter signal was being blocked."

Fatty exhaled a smoke ring and began shouting into the darkness, "Saipan! Where are you?"(1)

I held him down. At this ti, the radio in my hand ca on and the other party said another sentence, "Jin Xingsan, stop being so petty and answer ." After a pause, I heard a strange noise coming from the background on the other persons end.

That noise was similar to the sound bugs made when they opened and closed their mouths.

"Papapapapapapapa."

Uri must not have loosened her grip on the transmit button, so we could all hear the sounds. Then, she said a sentence which was obviously addressed to soone in her team, "Slow down. It's not that I don't believe you, its just obvious that youve snuck into the team. We didnt receive any notification of this, so I definitely want to verify that this is Jin Xingsans doing. But either way, I definitely don't agree with it."

Then, there ca that papapapapapa sound again.

"I drew a sketch that day and you werent in it, Uris voice said again. You definitely werent there that day and didn't join the team at that ti. Don't try to pull one over on ."

Then, there was another series of those papapapapa sounds.

Fatty and I looked at each other, and Fatty asked, "Is this papapapa noise a taunt or sothing?"

I shook my head. I couldn't hear anyone talking to Uri in the background, but the papapapapa sound was very clear.

But whatever was making the papapapa sound didnt seem like it was close to Uri, so it was probably a little distance away.

If the radio could pick up the papapapa sound at a distance, then we should also be able to hear the voice of the person talking to Uri.

But Uri was the only one talking on the radio, which was very strange.

Plus, what was that papapapa sound we kept hearing?

Jin Xingsan suddenly spoke up at this ti, "Weve listened to it many tis, so you should know that the next bit of dialogue is very unpleasant. You should ntally prepare yourself. But it's useless to listen to it, so if youre not all that curious, you'd better not listen."

I ignored him and continued listening, only to hear Uri continue talking, "It's really dark here. If you jump from here, youll keep falling forever without reaching the bottom. Its a bit like floating. I don't know whats going on, but I really want to float in this blackness."

Then ca a series of slower papapapa sounds.

"Suspend myself? Uri continued, Others will treat like an idiot."

There was another series of papapapa sounds.

"Stop ssing with , Uri said. When Jin Xingsan gets in touch and verifies your identity, you'd better explain when you snuck in and what your purpose is."

The frequency of her words and the papapapa sounds corresponded to each other, as if they were talking.

When I heard this, I turned to Fatty and said, "This papapa sound seems to be answering Uri's words? Is this the bee mantalking?"

"So this is a conversation?"

I nodded. Based on the frequency of this back-and-forth between both sides, it was definitely a conversation. But the bee man definitely wasnt human and was making weird sounds. Plus, to make matters even more strange, Uri could understand it and could even maintain this back-and-forth exchange.

It kind of reminded of soone with a ntal illness.

When you said one thing, theyd hear another. It was a problem where their brain couldnt translate the sound waves they heard into the correct anings. But the brain had the ability to forcibly make the information seem logical, so it would compile these pieces of information and make itself think that it was reasonable.

So, no matter what you said, the things the ntal patient heard would be sothing completely different but sohow reasonable to them.

That was why schizophrenia seed like completely abnormal behavior in the eyes of normal people. But in the eyes of the patients themselves, they were completely normal.

Uri's performance on the walkie-talkie was exactly like a schizophrenic patient.

I didn't expect this kind of logic and felt my back go cold.

Then, I broke out in a cold sweat as I heard what happened next over the radio.

This strange conversation lasted for four or five more sentences, during which ti Uri's words were suddenly mixed in with the sound of teeth clicking together.

"We won't climb tonight. Jin Xingsan, if you don't reply, well gegegegegegetest the humidity. I don't think the humidity isgegegege."

Uri was obviously in the middle of talking when this sound of teeth clicking together suddenly appeared, but she didnt seem to notice it.

Pale and tense as I continued to listen, I began to anticipate that things were going in an extrely bizarre direction.

It must have been half an hour later when Uri called Jin Xingsan again, but this ti, it was a regular call.

But when I listened carefully, I found that there were more and more of those teeth clicking sounds interspersed with Uri's words, while there were fewer and fewer normal words.

And the papapapapa sound was still there. It appeared to have been by her side and occasionally spoke.

This regular call lasted at least a dozen more cycles. Fatty and I listened attentively, but the others had probably already heard it, so they all started to rest. All of their faces were pale, making it obvious that the subsequent developnt had an impact on them.

The regular call said almost the exact sa thing, but the more I listened to it, the more creeped out I felt.

This was because Uri's normal voice appeared less and less and the sound of teeth clicking together appeared more and more.

By the thirteenth regular call, the sound of teeth clicking together was almost the only thing I could hear when the radio sounded.

Gegegegegege.

Uri never uttered a complete sentence again. If I were at the scene, Id probably see her turning on the walkie-talkie and clicking her teeth together, thinking that she was talking.

There were only a few gaps between these gegege sounds where other sporadic words could be heard. They sounded similar to the pronunciation of the word float, but I didnt know what she was saying.

In the darkness, the noises sounded extrely strange.

Fatty's cigarette burned his fingers and fell directly into the darkness below.

"Assimilated." Fatty looked at .

I pinched the bridge of my nose and fell into an indescribable mood.

First of all, after hearing what happened to Uri, it seed as if she had been slowly eaten away by sothing in the darkness here, but she was obviously completely unaware of it.

Secondly, I realized another very serious problem.

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TN Notes:

(1) It's a TikTok thing. Per Tiffany, the won in these super short videos here and here are frantically yelling and looking for soone nad Saipan. It just blew up.